On 10th April 2017, a shooting incident at North Park Elementary School in San Bernardino resulted killing of 3 people including a child and one severely injured student. A spokesperson from police department Captain Ron Maas has confirmed reports that one of the killed persons was a special-needs teacher, 53-years old Karen Elaine Smith. She was allegedly shot by Cedric Anderson (her husband), he also killed himself. Maas said that bullets also hit two students who were standing behind Elaine Smith and it killed an 8-years old student Jonathan Martinez and severely injured one student. Police also confirmed that there is not any kind of expected threat. Former board member of San Bernardino City Unified School, Judi Penman said that police department of the school is very well prepared for any situation such as North Park Elementary School shooting on Monday.
Penman also added that it is well organized and well prepared police department. Police said that husband of Smith (Anderson) told the front desk that he has to deliver a package to his wife. The Mayor of San Bernardino, R. Carey Davis informed reporters that emergency staff was on the incident place within minutes and police department immediately responded. During the ongoing investigation period, the school will be closed for at least 2 days. It is important that is was the 2nd mass shooting incident in the region within 2 years. First incident took place on 2nd December 2015 at a holiday party in the Inland Regional Center at San Bernardino, in which 14 people were killed and more than 22 were injured. Both involved shooters Rizwan Farooq & Tashfeen Malik were also killed later that day in a police encounter.